For each of the following weekly sets of vocabulary "roots" and "terms" do the following activities in your seating groups:
Create a webpage with:
a. Definitions for each root and its terms;
b. An activity for each member of your group chosen from the Activities page.
d. A review activity that tests a student's knowledge of the roots, the terms, and their definitions. Each week try to create a different review activity.
Week 1
TRANS: across or through
1. transaction: n. putting through a business deal
2. transparent: adj. letting light pass through (you can see through it)
PORT: to carry
3. deport: v. to send a person out of the country
4. export: v. to send goods out of the country
5. deportment: n. conduct; behavior
AUD: to hear
6. audit: n. an official examination of an account book
7. inaudible: adj. cannot be heard
VIS: to see
8. visa: n. an endorsement on a passport granting entrance to
a country
9. visage: n. the face or look of a person
10. providential: adj. provided by divine guidance; lucky
Week 2
FIC / FECT: make
1. affect: v. to influence; to make an impression on
2. effect: n. result; v. to cause or bring about a result (to "effect
a change")
3. deify: v. to make someone or something into a god
4. efficacious: adj. producing the wanted results; successful
COR / COUR: heart
5. cordial: adj. warm; cheerful
6. discourage: v. to deprive of confidence, hope or courage
CON: with or together
7. congregate: v. to gather with others in one place
8. consolidate: v. to unite into one whole; combine
ANTI: against
9. antibiotic: n. a drug capable of killing germs inside the body
10. antidote: n. a remedy to counteract a poison
Week 3
MEM: remember
1. memoirs: n. a record of something to be remembered
2. memorable: adj. worth remembering; noteworthy
3. commemorate: v. to observe; to recall to memory
4. memorabilia: n. objects and things remembered and collected
CIRCUM: around
5. circumference: n. the permitted of a circle
6. circumvent: v. to go around or bypass
7. circumspect: adj. watchful; cautious
VINC / VICT: conquer
8. invincible: adj. cannot be defeated; unstoppable
9. evict: v. to put a person from a property by legal process
Week 4
INTER: between / among
1. intercept: v. to take something on the way from one place to another
2. interstate: adj. crossing state lines
3. interim: n. the time between one thing and another (as in "in the
interim")
4. interdict: v. to forbid
ANTE: before
5. antecede: v. to go before in time
6. antebellum: adj. before the war (especially the Civil War)
CRED: believe
7. discredit: v. to cast doubt; ruin the reputation of
8. incredible: adj. unbelievable
9. credence: n. belief as to the truth of something
10. incredulous: adj. unbelieving; skeptical
Week 5
CULE: very small
1. molecule: n. the smallest unit of matter
2. minuscule: adj. extremely small; insignificant
FIX: fix
3. fixation: n. obsession; state of being attached
4. affix: v. to fasten; to seal
5. transfix: v. to hold motionless
RECT: right / straight
6. rectify: v. to correct a situation or problem
7. rector: n. a minister or priest who heads a parish, college, etc.
BIO: life
8. autobiography: n. one’s life story written by oneself
9. bionics: n. science of designing instruments after living things
10. biopsy: n. an examination of disease tissue
Week 6
1. precede: v. to go before
2. recede: v. to go back; withdraw
3. precedent: n. a case which may serve as a justification in future cases
4. proceeding(s): n. legal actions; events or happenings; an official record of things said or done
PRE: before
5. preamble: n. an introduction to a document
6. premonition: n. feeling that something is going to happen
7. precocious: adj. advanced mentally with relationship to age
LITCIT: permit
8. license: n. to permit or authorize
9. licentious: adj. immoral; sexually loose
10. illicit: adj. unlawful; illegal
Week 7
CAPIT: head
1. decapitate: v. to cut off someone’s head
2. capital: adj. punishable by death; main
3. capitulate: v. to surrender
CHRON: time
4. chronological: adj. in time order
5. chronic: adj. continuing for a long time
6. chronicle: n. a record of events; a history
7. chronometer: n. an instrument to keep time
METE: measure
8. odometer: n. an instrument for measuring the distance traveled
9. perimeter: n. the distance around
10. seismometer: n. an instrument to measure the movement of the earth (earthquakes)----
Week 8
GRAD / GRESS: step or degree
1. digress: v. to wander off the topic
2. degrade: v. to put down; put a step lower
TRACT: to draw or pull
3. retract: verb. drawn back or in (as "retract that statement")
4. detract: v. to draw away from (as "detracts from the beauty of..")
PEND: hang
5. pendulum: n. something hung as to swing freely
6. suspend: v. to hang by a support; to exclude from school
7. impending: adj. hanging over one, as doom
ASTER /ASTRO: star
8. asteroid: adj. like a star; n. a small body that rotates around the sun
9. astrology: n. the study of the stars as having an influence on one’s destiny (horoscopes)
10. astronomy: n. science of heavenly bodies (stars, planets, etc.)
For each of the following weekly sets of vocabulary "roots" and "terms" do the following activities in your seating groups:
Create a webpage with:
a. Definitions for each root and its terms;
b. An activity for each member of your group chosen from the Activities page.
d. A review activity that tests a student's knowledge of the roots, the terms, and their definitions. Each week try to create a different review activity.
Week 1
TRANS: across or through
1. transaction: n. putting through a business deal
2. transparent: adj. letting light pass through (you can see through it)
PORT: to carry
3. deport: v. to send a person out of the country
4. export: v. to send goods out of the country
5. deportment: n. conduct; behavior
AUD: to hear
6. audit: n. an official examination of an account book
7. inaudible: adj. cannot be heard
VIS: to see
8. visa: n. an endorsement on a passport granting entrance to
a country
9. visage: n. the face or look of a person
10. providential: adj. provided by divine guidance; lucky
Week 2
FIC / FECT: make
1. affect: v. to influence; to make an impression on
2. effect: n. result; v. to cause or bring about a result (to "effect
a change")
3. deify: v. to make someone or something into a god
4. efficacious: adj. producing the wanted results; successful
COR / COUR: heart
5. cordial: adj. warm; cheerful
6. discourage: v. to deprive of confidence, hope or courage
CON: with or together
7. congregate: v. to gather with others in one place
8. consolidate: v. to unite into one whole; combine
ANTI: against
9. antibiotic: n. a drug capable of killing germs inside the body
10. antidote: n. a remedy to counteract a poison
Week 3
MEM: remember
1. memoirs: n. a record of something to be remembered
2. memorable: adj. worth remembering; noteworthy
3. commemorate: v. to observe; to recall to memory
4. memorabilia: n. objects and things remembered and collected
CIRCUM: around
5. circumference: n. the permitted of a circle
6. circumvent: v. to go around or bypass
7. circumspect: adj. watchful; cautious
VINC / VICT: conquer
8. invincible: adj. cannot be defeated; unstoppable
9. evict: v. to put a person from a property by legal process
Week 4
INTER: between / among
1. intercept: v. to take something on the way from one place to another
2. interstate: adj. crossing state lines
3. interim: n. the time between one thing and another (as in "in the
interim")
4. interdict: v. to forbid
ANTE: before
5. antecede: v. to go before in time
6. antebellum: adj. before the war (especially the Civil War)
CRED: believe
7. discredit: v. to cast doubt; ruin the reputation of
8. incredible: adj. unbelievable
9. credence: n. belief as to the truth of something
10. incredulous: adj. unbelieving; skeptical
Week 5
CULE: very small
1. molecule: n. the smallest unit of matter
2. minuscule: adj. extremely small; insignificant
FIX: fix
3. fixation: n. obsession; state of being attached
4. affix: v. to fasten; to seal
5. transfix: v. to hold motionless
RECT: right / straight
6. rectify: v. to correct a situation or problem
7. rector: n. a minister or priest who heads a parish, college, etc.
BIO: life
8. autobiography: n. one’s life story written by oneself
9. bionics: n. science of designing instruments after living things
10. biopsy: n. an examination of disease tissue
Week 6
1. precede: v. to go before
2. recede: v. to go back; withdraw
3. precedent: n. a case which may serve as a justification in future cases
4. proceeding(s): n. legal actions; events or happenings; an official record of things said or done
PRE: before
5. preamble: n. an introduction to a document
6. premonition: n. feeling that something is going to happen
7. precocious: adj. advanced mentally with relationship to age
LITCIT: permit
8. license: n. to permit or authorize
9. licentious: adj. immoral; sexually loose
10. illicit: adj. unlawful; illegal
Week 7
CAPIT: head
1. decapitate: v. to cut off someone’s head
2. capital: adj. punishable by death; main
3. capitulate: v. to surrender
CHRON: time
4. chronological: adj. in time order
5. chronic: adj. continuing for a long time
6. chronicle: n. a record of events; a history
7. chronometer: n. an instrument to keep time
METE: measure
8. odometer: n. an instrument for measuring the distance traveled
9. perimeter: n. the distance around
10. seismometer: n. an instrument to measure the movement of the earth (earthquakes)----
Week 8
GRAD / GRESS: step or degree
1. digress: v. to wander off the topic
2. degrade: v. to put down; put a step lower
TRACT: to draw or pull
3. retract: verb. drawn back or in (as "retract that statement")
4. detract: v. to draw away from (as "detracts from the beauty of..")
PEND: hang
5. pendulum: n. something hung as to swing freely
6. suspend: v. to hang by a support; to exclude from school
7. impending: adj. hanging over one, as doom
ASTER /ASTRO: star
8. asteroid: adj. like a star; n. a small body that rotates around the sun
9. astrology: n. the study of the stars as having an influence on one’s destiny (horoscopes)
10. astronomy: n. science of heavenly bodies (stars, planets, etc.)